Capt. Ziakegha Invite Friends,Well Wishers to join Him on Child Dedication Tomorrow in Udu

Capt. Ziakegha Invite Friends,Well Wishers to join Him on Child Dedication Tomorrow in Udu

Warri _____Captain Sylvester Ziakegha who hails from Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State has invited friends, well wishers and as well as the general Public to celebrate with him as he dedicate his son to the Almighty God on the 22nd of January, 2023.

The dedication will take place at St. Francis Catholic Church, Igbeki in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State at the 9am mass, thereafter, the reception will follows immediatly at his residence at Otuama. 

All arrangements have been concluded   to host as many dignitaries that will grace the occasion.

Crack in Oborevwori's Campaign DG's Ward as Brisibe Resigns from PDP

Crack in Oborevwori's Campaign DG's Ward as Brisibe Resigns from PDP

Warri ______ In a letter personally signed by him, Alaowei Ebi Brisibe resigns from the People's Democratic Party and withdraws his membership due to reasons bordering on irreconcilable wranglings within the party at the ward level.

He predicts that PDP is doomed to loose the ward of Rt. Hon. Funkekeme Solomon because the anger of the people is rising everyday. The Ojobo people are angry because despite the massive support they gave to the governor and the PDP in the last two elections he has chosen to deliberately abandon the Ojobo/Torugbene road project.

Ebi Brisibe who is a younger brother to Hon Tam Brisibe, the first Chief of Staff to the governor of Delta State added that his resignation is partly because of the party's lack of cohesion and direction. 

Although he is silent about his new party, it is clear that his defection is an introduction to more resignations to come from that ward in the nearest future, the statement added.

World’s Oldest Woman, Sister André Dies at Age 118 in France

World’s Oldest Woman, Sister André Dies at Age 118 in France 

The world’s oldest known person, French nun Sister André, has died at age 118 in the southern French city of Toulon, the city’s mayor Hubert Falco said on Wednesday.

Born in the southern French town of Ales on Feb. 11, 1904, as Lucile Randon, Sister André was listed as the oldest person alive by the Gerontology Research Group in April 2022.

The Frenchwoman worked as a home teacher in her youth and did not enter a religious community until she was in her early 40s.

Most recently, Sister André was confined to a wheelchair, and for several years she could no longer see properly.

She was an honorary citizen of Toulon, where she lived in a retirement home for several years.

Falco praised her as incredibly modern and a nun with a big heart.

Guinness World Records said Lucile, who took the name of Sister André in 1944, was the second-oldest French person and the second-oldest European person ever recorded.

More recently, Sister André received the record for the oldest COVID-19 survivor after an infection in 2021.

“It’s difficult to fathom that someone born before the patenting of plastic, zips or even bras were alive well into the 21st century, and robust enough to beat COVID-19’’, the Guinness World Records editor, Craig Glenday said in a statement.

“It’s been an honour to record her story in the pages of the Guinness World Records book, and she will live on in history as the fourth oldest person ever authenticated.’’

With her death, Maria Branyas Morera, who lived in Spain, assumed the title of the world’s oldest person at age 115.

Ekanpou Releases Emotional Article to Bid Late Mother Final Rest on Saturday 21st, at Oyangbene

Ekanpou Releases Emotional Article to Bid Late Mother Final Rest on Saturday 21st, at Oyangbene 

PRESS RELEASE:

THE DEPARTURE OF THE STORIED STORYTELLER PHILOSOPHER CALLED MRS TIMIEBI MAIKA EKANPOU OF OYANGBENE TOWN IN BURUTU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF DELTA STATE

1.Timiebi Maika Ekanpou who hails paternally from Oyangbene,Ayakoromo, and Akugbene and maternally from Ogbe-Ijoh town was a remarkable storyteller philosopher and phenomenal philanthropist who died on 30 August 2020 but now programmed to be honoured with  final burial rites on 21 January 2023 at Oyangbene in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.Throughout out her incarnation on earth, mathematically placed at 79 years(1941-2020), she philosophised the world impactfully with her philosophically anchored didactic stories that charted a clear moral path for her generation and beyond.Her stories were always loaded with edifying statements  that she constantly became a quotable personality in every discourse of intellectuals.To many people,Timiebi Maika Ekanpou is the refinery of quotable philosophical statements.Every story of Mrs Timiebi Maika Ekanpou carries different quotable statements laden with both ancient and contemporary wisdom.

2.Mrs Timiebi Maika Ekanpou was also known as a fisherwoman and a sailor.With her sky-house ship she sailed from Akparemogbene to Enieborgbene,Ofirikigbene,Izansa,Ikeremor,Aferesuoaghagbene and back to Ayakoromo,Oyangbene, Ezebiri,Ogodobiri and many other places selling fishes and buying sugar-cane,sweet potatoes,Ogogoro gin and cassava.In her sailing business she virtually did everything trade by barter.Engaged in this sailing and fishing occupations, Mrs Timiebi Maika Ekanpou became a household name for her fish-philanthropy.Her fish-generosity was extended to any person that came her way.She was such a phenomenal giver that no day passed without her display of fish-philanthropy which was extended to anybody irrespective of tribe.Tribe does not exist in her daily vocabulary while she was alive.In her daily interactions with diverse people across the world, Mrs Timiebi Maika Ekanpou did not see tribe as a significant factor in building a functional relationship.

3.Mrs Timiebi Maika Ekanpou was a fiery human rights activist who pursued human rights activism through her philosophy called 'Wiyouism' interpreted to mean who are you to deprive people of their fundamental human rights?She did not allow anyone to deprive her of her basic human rights and she was always ready to fight for the human rights of any deprived person.With her philosophy of 'Wiyouism' she popularised her struggle and agitation for human rights restoration in every organisation without discrimination.There is no human rights activism without Timiebi as there is no Mrs Timiebi Maika Ekanpou without the 'Wiyouism' philosophy in the history of human rights activism in Nigeria though Timiebi's human rights activism carried resonance and reverberations more at the level of microcosm in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.In her heydays Timiebi's comradeship cannot be denied by the likes of Joseph Evah and others.

4.Despite the human rights activism of Mrs Timiebi Maika Ekanpou,she was a great caring mother who gave her children all the motherly attention required in the history of motherhood.In motherhood Timiebi was an excellent mother who showed love to all her children without discrimination and she will ever be remembered as an unforgettable mother even after many centuries have gone by.It saddens all her children that with all her phenomenal motherhood and kindness to others displayed philanthropically, she could not still live up to one hundred years, only dying at the painful age of 79(1941-2020).From now till the close of this age, Mrs Timiebi Maika Ekanpou who will be honoured with final burial rites in Oyangbene on 21 January 2023 will always remain a great mother in the archive of her children and beyond.It is with tears of short-lived dreams and calculations that I shall say final safe journey to my great mother Mrs Timiebi Maika Ekanpou on 21 January 2023 because I know certainly she did not have enough of me  and that my great plans for her for taking good care of me on earth were not fruitfully executed before she died.My tears are therefore tears of not having enough of Timiebi Maika Ekanpou before her death which is appallingly contrary to all my conceptualizations.

BY:EKANPOU ENEWARIDIDEKE, an author of the novel Spiked Beyond Spikes, and winner of the 2004 Isidore Okpewho Prize for Literature with his book entitled The Road to Ken Saro-Wiwa, and he is a son to late Mrs Timiebi Maika Ekanpou.

How Police Arrest 17-year-Old Boy for Impregnating 10 Ladies in Rivers State

How Police Arrest 17-year-Old Boy for Impregnating 10 Ladies in Rivers State

Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a 17-year-old boy identified as Noble Uzuchi, alongside his accomplice, Chigozie Ogbonna, 29, for impregnating 10 ladies as part of running a baby factory.

Aside from Uzuchi, and Ogbonna, the police also apprehended two other ladies, Favour Bright, 30; and Peace Alikoi, 40.

The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Grace Iringe-Koko, who disclosed the arrests in a statement, said the four suspects operated in Obio/Akpor and Ikwerre local government areas of the state.

While noting that the suspects were arrested following a tip-off, Iringe-Koko said the 10 pregnant ladies have been rescued.

According to the police spokesperson; “On Saturday, January 7, 2023, around 4.45pm, while acting on credible intelligence available to the Rivers State Police Command, C4I Intelligence Unit operatives raided two houses at Igwuruta and Omagwa communities respectively, where victims of child trafficking were being kept. 

“The victims rescued in the operation are 10, most of them pregnant"

The statement further said investigations revealed that when a victim was delivered of her baby, the syndicate leader kept the child and paid her a sum of N500,000, adding that some of the babies previously delivered in the houses had been sold.

She said, “All the victims confessed that they were lured to the illicit sales of children because of the need to meet some financial challenges. A Honda Pilot Jeep, white, was recovered from the syndicate leader.”

The case, Iringe-Koko noted, has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for investigation, and efforts intensified to track and arrest the buyers of the children already sold.

Tantita security vision is to salvage the Environment for our People _Pondi

Tantita security vision is to salvage the Environment for our People _Pondi

Oyinbi Onduku 

Warri_____ The Managing Director (MD) Tantita Security Nig. Ltd, Chief (Engr.) Kestin Pondi, has emphasized that the core objective of their organization is to safeguard and protect the environment from the activities of illegal oil bunkers for the general interest and comfort for the people of Niger Delta Region.

He stated this on Tuesday in Warri, Delta State during a media briefing with journalists, said the people of Niger Delta will soon appreciate the importance of what Tantita Security Service are doing, stressing that the activities of kpo fire had caused majority of our people more harm than the immediate gain of the few indulged in the illegal business.

Engr. Kestin reiterated that research by medical professionals, health safety and environmental experts over the years had revealed that the people of Niger Delta region are prone to cancer and other related diseases due to the consistent gas flare in the air by multi-national oil companies as well as the nefarious activities of illegal oil bunkers, thereby reducing the life span of our people resident in the creeks.

He lamented that the illegal oil bunkering activities had killed almost all the fishes in the river, thereby terminated our only source of livelihood fishing and farming in the riverine communities and making life unbearable for our people.

Pondi stressed that Tantita security services in the past few months of operation had increase the daily output of oil production of the nation to over two million barels per day, thereby improving the economy of the country.

Reacting in the area of engagement, Pondi stated that Tantita security services had gainfully employed over twenty five thousand youths, men and women from the street, thereby drastically reducing the rate of crime and unemployment challenges bedeviling the country.

He concluded by saying Tantita security services is not out there to maltreat neither intimidate our people, rather they appeal for cooperation of the general public in the fight against illegal oil bunkering as well as pollution of our environment for the sake of our children in the future.

Also speaking at the media briefing, the Legal Adviser of Tantita Security Nig. Ltd, Barr. Emmanuel lzakpa, stressed that the security outfit is doing their best to operate within the ambit of the law, considering human rights amongst others as top priority.

Delta Riverine Community's Tell Okowa, Sheriff to Create CADA to Get Votes

Delta Riverine Community's Tell Okowa, Sheriff to Create CADA to Get Votes

Burutu______ The people of Delta State Riverine Communities has called on Sen. Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State and vice presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as well as the Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly and Delta State PDP Governorship candidate, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori to consider the establishment of the proposed Coastal Areas Development Agency, CADA, to enable them get block votes from the riverine areas of the State. 

The people who spoke under the auspices of Coastal Communities for Development, (CCD) gave the charge in Burutu, headquarters of Burutu LGA of the State on Monday January 16, 2023, while speaking with newsmen on the importance of infrastructural development of riverine/coastal communities ahead of the 2023 general elections, with special focus on Delta State.

The group noted that the Bill for  establishment of CADA is not new to both the Delta State Governor and the Speaker, because the Bill had been submitted and re-submitted before Dr. Okowa and Hon. Oborevwori by a renowned Delta born development advocate, Comrade Mulade Sheriff, National Coordinator, Center for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ, a foremost non- governmental organization, NGO, in a letter addressed to them personally, and to the State House of Assembly on several occasions. 

While buttressing the role and importance of the Bill to coastal communities in the state, CCD said CADA, when established, would bring real expansion, infrastructural, economic, human capital, educational, health and mental development to riverine dwellers in Delta State, irrespective of their ethnic differences.

The group urged Dr. Okowa to direct the Honourable Speaker, Hon. Oborevwori and other members as a matter of urgency, to considered and give speedy passage to the establishment of the Delta State Coastal Areas Development Agency, CADA. This gesture would give us sense of belonging under the current administration development strides ahead of the general elections slated for Saturday, February 25, and subsequent elections in 2023, if they wish to get block votes from the riverine communities of the State. 

He further noted that CADA, when established, has the capacity for addressing environmental, ecological, human capital, infrastructural, educational and health needs of the coastal communities of Delta State.   

CCD, asserted that about 50% of Delta State voters live in the riverine areas of the State, and their mandate is for only the candidate who is ready to establish CADA and or will sign concrete social contract for the establishment of CADA for riverine development. The group also called on all Riverine communities in the state especially the Ijaws and Itsekiris not to be carried-away by political deceit of politicians claiming to bring development to the area and yet to do the needful in establishing a development agency for the sustainable development of this critical areas 

The Spokesperson of group, Hon Friday Egberike in his remarks said if CADA is established before the 2023 general elections, it would give the riverine people a real sense of belonging and that will stimulate support and votes for any political party that include the establishment of CADA in their manifesto in the forthcoming elections both at the State and National levels.

2023: Mont-ere Vows to Register 500 Business for Burutu North Indigenes when Elected

2023: Mont-ere Vows to Register 500 Business for Burutu North Indigenes when Elected 

Delta State House of Assembly hopeful in the forthcoming 2023 general elections to represent the good people of Burutu Constituency 1, Chief, Barr.(Mrs) Juliet Mont-ere SHAGUOLO of People's Redemption Party, PRP, has promised to assist over 500 small and medium scale business owners in Burutu  Local Government Area in order to get their businesses registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).

Mon-tere promised indigents that if supported and voted for, her first six months in office she will empower over 500 indegents of Burutu Constituency 1  in registering and distributing their  certificates of  business owners to them. Which is a starting point for any small business owner to be eligible for loans and contracts 

The influential young  lawyer added  that, the business registration  at no cost, all expenses will be on her, when elected.! That  she  would give some form of confidence to the Small medium owners within her Constituency.for it will gladden her  heart that her  people will  now have sense of belonging, why   working hard to ensure that people are engaged in SMEs. It gives some form of authenticity to business concerns,’ she stated.

On how she came about the programme, she said: ‘I go round and look for an opportunity for the hard working men, women  of my constituency and I sincerely want to assure them , when elected I will bring  back home entrepreneurial training, for our teaming youths.  

MONT-ERE  advised the teaming youths to use these open  opportunity to vote for her come 2023. That a vote for her is a vote for open doors and breakthrough of the Constituency, "If me!  Mont-ere SHAGUOLO is elected, the full Burutu Constituency 1 is elected " , my office shall be in Burutu not Asaba, I will only go to Asaba for sittings , so that I can feel the pains of my people . She said !